Articles on how we do it
How Compose does... MongoDB
In this new series, we'll look at each of the Compose databases, how they are configured, why we configure them the way we do…
Hiring: How We Do It
Our hiring process is different, very different. It's designed to be as fair and effective as possible. Tim Yocum explains ho…
A Duty to Alert - PagerDuty at Compose
Important: The features referred to in this article are no longer available in this form as the Compose platform has evolved…
The Great Remote Work Week - How We Did It
"Hey, everyone, we're all going home next week" - With this announcement from Compose CEO Kurt, so began an intriguing and in…
How We Do It: Good Deeds Recognized
How often have you accomplished something at work, raised your head from the desk and found you are in an empty office and no…
How We Do It: Backups
We've talked about how you can produce backups on-demand both manually and using the API, but what happens behind the curtain…
Project ChuckleDuck - How MongoHQ Became Compose
When we decided to offer more databases alongside MongoDB to our customers, one fact was glaringly obvious: we were going to…
Big Bobby Tables Gets a MongoHQ Database
After a small flood of retweets, we were happy to see that the people of Twitter liked finding our signup form immortalised X…
How We Do It: Running a Global Remote Pizza Party
We're a widely distributed company with a combination of offices and remote working around the world. It's second nature for…
How We Do It: Integrating Engineering & Support
We are always looking for ways to be better at MongoHQ. One of those ways is by making sure that support and engineering are…
Tooltime at MongoHQ
The inverse of the proverb "A poor workman blames his tools" is that a good craftsman credits their tools whenever they can.…
How MongoHQ Uses HipChat to Connect a Distributed Team
This blog post is republished from the HipChat blog, co-authored by Elena Gorman. Since its conception MongoHQ has grown from…
Making Remote Work Work: An Adventure in Time & Space
MongoHQ is a distributed company, with 21 employees scattered across California, Alabama, Utah, Windsor Ontario, Quebec, and…